Page Six DAILY WORKER. ftEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1929

THE LABEL OF THE LABOR OFFICIALDOM By Fred Ellis I 3 Mm M Copyright, 19t9, by International Bmlq WkMox^tr fj £J / J Publisher! Co., Inc. w Central Organ of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. HAYWOOD’S Published by the Comprodaily Publishing: Co., Inc.,. Daily, except City, Sunday, at 26-28 Union Square, New York N. Y. £ Telephone Stuyvesant 36y6-7-8. Cable: “DAIWURK." All rights reserved. Republiia- f J \ M | M/' SUBSCRIPTION RATES: iion forbidden except by permisstcn. I \ I t ¦ a Ry Mail on New York only): 58.00 a year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 a year $3.50 six months $2.00 three months Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square. New York. N. Y. Terrible Speculator Disaster; Moyer Kow-tows to Militarists, U. M. W. A. Lawyer Helps; W. and War Navy Yard Workers! Get Off Your Knees! Bisbee Deportations; I. W. Labor plays an abject role in the launching of American Haywood has told of the Western Federation of Miners’ strikes, mining job to become the W.F.M. ship which he led ever since he left his imperialism’s new 10,000-ton of war, the Pensacola, to- secretary-treasurer; he has told of founding the 1.W.W., of the tV.y at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. While the yankee imperialist Laivrence, Paterson, Akron and Mesaba Range strikes, of the fram- Mooney Billings, and Joe Hill; the ambasador, Hugh Gibson, talks armament reduction at ing up of Ford and Suhr, and S. preparedness orgy and the Everett massacre. .Continue below’ Geneva, American navalism grows mightier than ever. * * * By WILLIAM D HAYWOOD. launching has been seized upon by the The Brooklyn PART 95. Council, “class peace” officialdom of the Metal Trades the IN June, 1917, just three years from the date of the blowing up of mere skeleton of trade union organization that exists in “The * the Miners’ Hall in Butte, Montana, a horrible disaster occurred in of that A fire broke out from some un- Yards,” for the holding of a “Harmony Banquet”, to which the Speculator mine camp. known cause on the 2,400 foot level. It caused the death of 194 men. not only William Green, president of the American Federa- The victims could not get out of the mine, nor could they make their tion of Labor has been invited but also Herbert Hoover’s way to the adjoining mines, as concrete bulkheads had been built that could not be dug through with- secretary of the navy, Charles Francis Adams, who comes out blasting. The mpn, who were without tools, from Massachusetts, the state that put Sacco and Vanzetti in scratched and dug to escape unnl their fingers were T, actually turned its worn to the bone, Those who were not X the electric chair and burned them to death, that burned to death were smothered by the smoke. Some yxSjf iHB guns against the heroic textile strikers of New Bedford and frightful stories were told about what was done at f Jxajf the morgue with the charred remains and unidentified ' Fall River. Uj bodies. These were sold for sl2 apiece, probably for Jjlf| Navy yard workers are being assessed $3.00 each for the dissecting purposes in the medical college. The fire in the Speculator mine was quickly fol- privilege of attending this “Feast of Industrial Peace”, which lowed by a general strike in all the mines of Butte. willno doubt see the main places occupied by uniformed naval This strike was conducted by a new union that had been formed called the United Metal Mine Workers. Former members of the Western officers, old party politicians and the navy yard bosses. Every Federation of Miners and members of the I.W.W. were the officials. possible method of intimidation is being used to force the I received the information that the government intended to make to in large because they are the overtures to the 1.W.W., the same as they had done to the Amer- workers attend numbers, approach intended ican Federation of Labor. But the officials who intended to ones the feast is to impress, they are the lambs to us were apprised of the fact that the I.W.W. would not enter into any be shorn of any desire to wage effective struggle in their contract or agreement with any employer. own interests in the government’s navy yards. A lawyer by the name of “Judge” Kerr * employed by the United Mine Workers of Illinois is said to have gone to Washington to inter- The workers will be told to continue the suicidal A. cede on behalf of the International Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ F. of L. tactics favored by their officials, including loyalty Mellon Gang Find Union (formerly the Western Federation of Miners). This organiza- Communism tion received the support of the government, the same as all other in- to the capitalist political parties, maintenance of a $5,000 a during govern- j “Do Pennsylvanians Want a Com- losses may be kept at a minimum. ternationals of the A. F. of L. the war. year lobby at Washington to beg favors from the Mine, Mill, Union munist State?” If anyone advocated the abolition of The International and Smelter Workers’ made ment. At the same time no mention will be made of the progress even with the support of F. L. and the gov- The Pennsylvania all fire fighting apparatus because little the A. of suffered by the workers at “The Yards”; especi- Manufacturers’ Pennsylvania Manufacturers Because ernment. Moyer paid lip service to Gompers at a Pan American Con- brutalities Journal, of the most reac- Wild fire losses were deplorable such a organ ference. He did the incredible thing of thanking Gompers for what ally the 48-hour week, six days per week and the eight-hour tionary of enemies to the work- person be a fit psychopathic bloc Workers Denounce Coal and Iron Police would he had done in our behalf when we were on trial in Idaho. The fact day, being forced to contribute per cent of their own ing class, poses this question in subject. There is no wisdom in the 3Vk was that Gompers did nothing, did not even raise his voice, though , their March issue. advocacy of the abolition therefore wages to an old age pension fund that doesn’t operate until unions affiliated to the A. F. of L. helped financially and gave real And. in the various names and, becoming which are of our military protection until that us workers are 65 years of age; no unemployment insurance, in almost the same breath, obtained by the Commun- earnest support. they fervently reply, Hue in the face with hysteria, says: ists and their dupes time has come” . . . etc., until nausea. fact, no all for workers who have been | “If they do under false Debs bitterly criticized Moyer for his lying kowtowing, and he did protection at not in not work against it they “Baldwin, in the American Civil pretenses.” He quotes a speech of Ben Gitlow’s will have forget to lambast Gompers for what he did not do. “The Yards” for at least a year, and the government has the Liberties’ Union of free Mellon delivered in Cleveland, in July, 1925, not it.” definition Heads Clique. Moyer was finally removed from the presidency of the Mine, Mill pleases. of Joseph Grundy, speech, included right now Grundy lh which Gitlow declared, “China has full right to “hire and fire” as it The organ R. the to advo- And Mr. and his and Smelter Workers’ organization. labr.r-hating president of cate murder.” probably 500,000,000 people and when the the the blood-fattened cohorts will After declaration of was told by Bruere, The American Federation of Labor convention at New Kuomintang backed by the Commun- the war in 1917 I Robert Pennsylvania manufacturers, be- Defends Murder. eagerly bestir themselves to a reign who was then writing a series of articles called “Following the Trail hysterical in its of as ists in Russia come into power and Orleans completely endorsed the whole naval program of the comes warning A beautiful gem of this oracle of terror complete as that of of the 1.W.W.,” that the organization was to be raided. He told me Rumania or those 500,000,000 people become Wall Street government. It made no preparations to develop note. the manufacturers is as follows. Poland. The manufac- that to this end Sam Gompers had gone to Newton Baker, then secre- “The Communist Party Phila- of Pennsylvania are con- militant, disciplined workers and struggle organization of the navy yard in “One of the specialties that the turers the tary of war, and had presented to him a plan to annihilate the a for the workers. delphia probably large bourgeois soldiers, then will the rest of the I.W.W. is 30 times as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh branches centrated essence of power Baker refused to take the suggestion of Gompers seriously; the latter This effort must be initiated and developed by the workers as it was four years ago and stages (of and brutality. They are composed world look out, for Communism will the A. C. L. U.) has taken up then -went to the Department of Justice, where he met with more suc- themselves, who must demand the organization industrially regular meetings,” is the first line is to get rid of the coal and iron of the Mellons, the mine-owners, rule the world, and we will have a of the article which was real proletarianism of the workers cess. of all shipbuilders, navy yard workers included, on the basis written by police and now that several of the both anthracite and bituminous, the An extremely bitter stream of publicity had been started by the Francis Ralston Welsh. of the world. . . of shop committees, for effective class struggle in support of coal and iron police have done the steel companies, the manufacturing press, charging the I.W.W. with receiving vast sums of German gold. (the He continues: “It Communist sort of things that any police do at industries of all types. Pennsyl- Maxim Litvinoff who made the It was said that we intended to poison the canned goods used by the the effort to remedy their many grievances. Party) boring from Geneva,” is also within times, they do not advocate discip- vania has been ruled by the bloody famous “peace gesture at army, and that we were responsible for the spread of the hoof and This will not be effected through “class peace” ban- in the schools and has enlisted the line of those members, but the aboli- fist of the industrialist for half a the journal declares, “is the same mouth disease that was raging and had killed great herds of cattle. good offices of a number of school tion of the whole force.” century. The presidency of Grundy, man, sought by the police as a bank quets. Navy yard workers, and all labor, in this season of THE work of organizing by the Mine Workers’ Industrial Union was teachers who write about Listen political leader, leads the even etc.” * favorably to that phrase, “And now state robber and bandit in 1907, extending to the different mining regions of the country and was the year, gathers in the huge May Day demonstrations or- Young (the deeper the Pioneers Communist that several of the coal and iron into the fastnesses of brutal- “As for us,” the journal concludes, especially strong in the state of Arizona children’s organization) where the membership had ganized in all lands under the leadership of the Communist and their police have done the sort of things ity and conniption. “we will continue to contend for ade- determined demand an increase of wages. The Copper - to Trust had isits to Soviet Russia, etc.” any police In the same issue, (the International. One reply by Brooklyn navy yard workers, that do at times”—kick- manufac- quate preparedness rather than increased the price of copper from 11 cents a pound to 33 cents a Terribly Scared. a turers’ be having and all shipbuilders, the for ing in the ribs of worker and must nightmares trust our country unarmed to the pound without giving a thought to the conditions of the men who pro- to “peace banquet” arranged And then, for three pages, the of late) is the following article, beating him to death with a poker tender mercies of a Soviet promoted duced the ore. The infamous Citizens’ Alliance was resurrected, and them by their traitor officialdom, is attendance at the May •niter alarm, probably one mouths the familiar is of the “sort of “The National Council for the Pre- ‘civil insurrection’.” under the name of Loyalty League began its inhuman atrocities. Day demonstrations organized by the Communist Party of revealing such a fright of radical- things” this brilliant writer, Francis vention of War. Foreign Propaganda The moral taught by these Early in the morning of July 10th, 1917, gunmen of the United ization that he includes even such Ralston Welsh Spread by Alleged Professional Paci- articles the United States, in New York City, and all other great is referring to. is up in the journal in these Verde Copper Company at Jerome, Arizona, belonging to ex-Senator names as A. J. Muste, Roger article, fists to Render Us Spineless and summed population centers in the land. Navy yard workers! Get off Nash He winds up his written italicized words, “The time for all William Clark, rounded up the miners of that camp, and, selecting 70 Baldwin, Margaret Sanger, James as childishly as a grammar school Impotent to Resist the Enemy in a your knees! Join in the celebration of believers in our form of government militants from among them, loaded these on cattle cars and sent them International May H. Maurer, etc., with furious blasts boy, with the exhortation, “Bestir Possible War of Aggression.” to coordinate their efforts to in- to California. The California sheriff refused relief, and drove them Day! Join in the struggle for the emancipation of yourselves against William Z. Foster, Eliza- yourselves, Pennsylvanians, for And in it comes a stirring para- sure the continuance of our form of back across the Arizona line, the group breaking up at Kingman, and labor the world over! Organize to combat the growing beth Gurley Flynn, etc. Communism is steadily gaining graph in which “internationalism” government is now.” And the manu- Arizona. The American Civil Liberties ground in your state. It is boring is bitterly attacked as that frightful war danger. Prepare to defend the Union of Soviet Republics, facturers call it a day in closing On July 12th, 1917, the miners of Bisbee, Arizona, were taken un- Union is position among pro- objective Soviet government the Socialist fatherland of all workers. termed “a in the from within university of the with this flag-waving paragraph. awares by the gunmen of the mining companies, and the business ele- center and has a committee mem- fessors and students, school teach- of Russia. ment, who composed a Vigilance Committee. They went in the small bership logic “I was born An American; I live which interlocks with the ers, school children, among the Listen to this bit of in the hours of the morning to the homes and boarding houses where the (Communist) magazine strongest An American; I shall die An Amer- Workers Party and clergy and their congregations, of the associa- miners lived, and routed them out of bed. The men were marched to ‘ some organizations among clubs, America, ican; and I intend to perform the The Land of Riches” for the 30 other which women’s in labor tion of industrialists in the baseball park near the depot, and when 1162 of them had been Few. carry on all phases of the Commu- unions and elsewhere and much that and perhaps the entire world. The duties incumbent upon me to the end • herded together, they were loaded into cattle and freight and nist game.” writer mien, “We all of my career.” cars American imperialism carefully spreads through the you do not recognize as Communist with respectful shipped to the desert of Hermanas. There they were unloaded and left not mentioned, world the lie that it is the land of the best treatment of work- The writer even quotes from propaganda is Communist propa- deplore the loss of life and material Those duties, are without food or water. Lenin, by ravages be brutal ex- “The famous dictum of Lenin ganda and often meant to make peo- wealth caused the of well understood to the As soon as I got word of this desperate outrage, I telegraphed ers; of high wages, the short workday and good conditions, millions of workers — must be remembered, ‘We must ple discontented with our laws, our fire. A national campaign is car- ploitation of to President Wilson at Washington, demanding that re- propaganda is so intense right here an the miners be This in Wall Street’s own learn to build Communism withnon- Constitution and our form of gov- ried on to keep the public advised of destruction of their unions—of turned to their homes in Bisbee, and there protected the fury ” slavery from homeland that whole sections of the working class are really Communist hands.’ He runs thru ernment, and many people who are as to the best methods of fire pre- attempt to reduce to actual of the I no answer to day heavy mob. received the wire I sent, and a or led to believe that they are better off than the workers in the the list of the National Committee not Communists are contributors to vention. ‘Fire Preventtion Week’ the millions of workers in the two later learned that the men had been moved to Columbus, New in that direc- industries of that dark state, rest of the world. capitalist of the A. C. L. U., industriously funds of institutions such as the is a notable instance Mexico. Again I telegraphed to the president, and received no reply. The masters are aided in this writing toward the end that fire Pennsylvania. effort by the traitor officials of the down the war records of American Civil Liberties Union, tion and The members of the I.W.W. were indignant at the outrage im- American Federation of posed upon their fellow workers, Labor, and began to agitate earnestly for who never tire of lauding American labor conditions. a general strike in the industries where they had control or enough influence by The Daily Worker publishes the story of Antonio Coiro, to cause the desired action the workers. This agitation brought bitter retaliation on the part of the employing class and the one of the workers murdered in the Western Union Telegraph La Guardia, in Attack on Haiti government. Arrests and deportations of the I.W.W. took place in Building Ex-Socialist, many parts disaster last Saturday, to prove the wretched lot of of the country. workers who pour their blood, sinew and agony into By HENRY Ch. ROSEMOND. Latin-America. AT a meeting of tjje General Executive Board held in Chicago in July, the mak- “voo- ing of New York City’s monster skyscrapers. (First Advisor of the Haitian These intellectuals talk of 1917, the war was discussed from different points of view, but Patriotic Union in the U.S.A.) * doo” magic, but not a word do they no definite action was decided upon other than what was being done White Chauvinism Rehashed Charge of In- say about Augusto Sandino of Nic- by the organization, though it was First coming to the United States, Antonio Coiro was It is quite natural that a person agreed that a statement would be aragua and his heroic struggle issued the membership. meeting caught in the maelstrom of of the caliber of F. H. Guardia, to After the of the Board, Ralph the industrial crisis that pre- La feriority of Black Races. against the U. S. marines in Nicara- Chaplin, then of the ex-socialist congressman, should editor Solidarity, published the following in the issue ceded the war. Returning to Europe he was immediately gua; nothing about the growing con- July lately have taken a slanderous atti- of 28th: drawn into the vortex of blood, the world slaughter sciousness of the Mexican workers “Were Drafted? that also tude towards the Haitian Republic. how superficial and ignorant be is alive today, much of the suppression You and peasants and the recent organi- “Where the I.W.W. Stands on the enmeshed Italy. Returning to the United States in 1922 he His attack is an open alliance with of affairs in Haiti. The American and suffering on the lives Question of War. inflicted zation of the “Workers and Peasants “The attitude of the Industrial of was again caught in another period of unemployment. He these forces that are seeking to people who are acquainted of people by General Workers the World is well known with the the Haitian Bloc,” which is putting a revolu- people of history of Russel, to the the United States and is generally recognized by the had been sick for three months before getting his last job. dominate and oppress the Haitians. Haiti and the Haitian John W. and his southern tionary candidate into the field for labor His attitude is only the people, with their gallant struggle marines, who have been fighting movement throughout the world. on which he had worked for only three weeks when he was continua- the next election; nothing about the “Since its inception our organization has tion of his old anti-Negro campaign, for liberty and independence, can there for 14 years, would have been opposed all national and killed outright with three others, renewed revolution in China and the imperialistic proved, while 17 were badly in- of many years standing, readily see wars. We have beyond the shadow of a doubt, which that the articles of La avoided. organization of workers and peas- question jured in the tragedy brought on by the vicious speed-up originates ideology that war is a with which we never have and never intend to from a false of Guardia arc unfounded and absurd. Os course, John Russell would ants armies there, nothing about the compromise. precipitated upon the workers by the the superiority of the white Spaniard He again, in these articles, brings have done like John Waller did in the demand of the Western general, growing reaction on the “Members joining the over the Negro in forth theory races a few years ago, military forces of any nation have always Union to finish the building as soon as possible. The widow Latin-America. the that the dark Philippines where part of the imperialist nations in been expelled from the organization. He uses this absurd idea to hide his will always be oppressed because he set fire to the four corners of the and an eight-year-old son survive, facing the bitter struggle every colonial and semi-colonial “The I.W.W. has placed itself regarding ignorance of international they are an race. capital. as the U. S. is now do- on record its opposition to affairs inferior In his Or country in the world. They never war, and also as being bitterly for existence alone, the unequal battle under the wage system and to shield the role of imperialism opinion, Haiti especially be ing in Nicaragua Mexico. The opposed to having its members forced must and take notice of the fact that for five into the bloody quarrels that is so difficult even with a in Haiti. brought subjugation quogtion and needless of the ruling class of different breadwinner the family. in under the of the here is which is the consecutive years the African Equa- nations. With of This same 'insincere and super- U. S. A. because she won her inde- stronger oppressor. Napoleon had the muscle and brawn a worker in the prime of life, torial region has been suffering “The principle of the international solidarity ficial attitude manifested by pendence Franco thru the ex- only large army, but the U. 3, of labor to which we at 37 years of age, Antonio Coiro was only able to provide a was La from his S from the increasing enslavement of always adhered makes Guardia in another Dur- termination of the great, army imperialists have aeroplanes and have it impossible for us to participate in any home for his little family in one of tenements instance. heroic the French governments, and that and all of the plunder-squabbles of the Harlem’s where ing the years of 1918-19-20 when of Napoleon, under the commander- and marines subjugate parasite class. bombs to the Negroes there are fighting Our songs, our the of rents are lowest. the U. S. government was taking ship of Rochambeau in 1804, in colonial peoples. literature, sentiment the entire membership bravely against such oppression. —the very spirit of our union, give of measures against the bootleggers, “bloody battles.” And our congress- evidence our unalterable opposi- of Coiro If some of the intellectuals, who Why does not La Guardia mention tion to both capitalism and its wars. The lot Antonio and his family is not the ex- La Guardia was issuing very nice man mourns the loss of Na- the insist on writing articles about a word about the “institution” of “All members of ception. It is the lot of the great masses of who sympathetic army; the I.W.W. who have been drafted should mark toil carry and statements of a poleonic but has he ever nothing ” countries they know about, Jim-Crowism here in the United their claims for exemption, ‘I.W.W., opposed to war.’ the whole structure of American capitalist fundamentally dry Now stopped to think of the disaster the * * society upon their character. would use some of their time to States, where lynching of Negroes * he has suddenly turned U. S. marines have brought to the * bent shoulders. When these millions rise and assert their liquor-propa- examine the actual conditions exist- is an almost daily occurence, where Judge was a permanent gandist. He Haitian people thru years “peace- Kerr member, of Frank Farrington’s power, bending no more, wants to have the future of -bs aqj—sauiunoo snoueA oqi ut 3ut the Negro workers are constantly staff for many years. had his then the capitalist social order will title of “wet champion.” ful occupation.” He office in the U.M.W.A., District 12 He tries cial and economic conditions that faced with starvation because of headquarters at Springfield. He directly crash to earth, even as the tons of steel girders that fell from to be on the safe side of the ruling represented the district ad- I wish to inform him that if men produce conditions of slavery and race discrimination on the job and ministration as an assistant prosecutor in the twenty-second floor of the Western Union Telegraph powers. the framed up prosecution of the type of Toussaint L’Ouverture, oppression, they would be of more elsewhere. These are important mat- of the Ziegler boys, for murder. He died in 1927. Company Building This up-to-date wet con- * * last Saturday carrying death and misery same Dessaline, Capoie La Mort, King service and would be forced to bring ters that cannot be overlooked. But * gressman in their wake. But the fall of capitalism, in his “I am telling you Henri Christophe and the other before the people of the United what is one to expect from a man Next Haywood the victory of la- confidentially” will tell of the murder of Frank Little, and the bor, bring for anti-Haitian articles j heroes who were responsible for States the heroic battles that are who has for years been playing on nation-wide raid by the Department will liberation the many, where today America the Evening Graphic of Justice on the I.W.W. Get in of March 28,1 driving out Napoleon’s army and es- being fought at this time by the op- the side of those who had greater one copy Bill Haywood's ** “the land of riches” for only the few. April of Book free with, a yearly subscription to 5, and April 11, proves again i tablishing freedom in Haiti, were pressed colonial peoples all over advantages to offer. the Daily Werio*.